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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of two brothers suffering from life threatening illnesses, Jared -Yechezkel David Ben Shayndel and Alex – Asher Daniel Ben Shayndel. May Hashem shower them with a complete recovery b’riut hanefesh v’b’riut haguf among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
Negativity draws negativity and vice versa. If we allow a harmful thought to enter our mind it automatically causes damage and draws sadness. I purposely write the word ‘allow’ since it is within our control to allow it to dwell or quickly be ‘shooed’ away. Hashem has given us the ability to choose how we react to people, circumstances as well as our thoughts.
Thoughts are not bound to time or space as we sometimes experience when the phone rings and just have a hunch who is calling. Or we may desire to purchase something when someone ‘appears’ with it. There are times when we create our reality by reassuring ourselves that something will happen like, “I know I am going to be late” or “I know I won’t enjoy myself.” By doing so we create a reality that ‘agrees’ with our thoughts.
As a result if we find ourselves thinking, “I can’t do this anymore”, most likely we won’t be able to ‘do this anymore.’ At this point it is imperative to replace this thought as soon as possible with, “With Hashem’s help I can do it.” The replacing thought must be a positive one with no trace of negativity like “With Hashem’s help it will be better” since this paints a reality of it not being ‘better’ now. This process will initially strain the mind, yet it is the most guaranteed method to remove damaging thinking patterns with uplifting ones.
